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The original lawsuit had been brought by a woman alleging she was sexually abused as a child by her foster father in the 1980s while under the care of the children’s aid society’s predecessor organization. McCallum made the statement in a July 2018 affidavit responding to the plaintiff’s lawyer, Simona Jellinek.
“She states that the alleged assaults took place while the plaintiff was ‘in childhood,’” McCallum wrote, before noting that the plaintiff’s year of birth indicates she would have been about 14 or 15 in the early 1980s.
A girl that age is “a sexually mature young woman, not a ‘child,’ as the term is conventionally understood,” McCallum wrote.
“As it is difficult to imagine a reasonable person concluding that the reference to ‘childhood’ … was an implicit reference to alleged pedophilia, we have difficulty accepting that this is what Mr. McCallum actually thought when he swore his affidavit,”
Mainstream media in Canada never reported on this. Redditors didn’t have anything nice to say other than name call and make insults.
This is from December 2023 to March 2024;
@BigJimsWornOutTires @raleqtambrobret @Madridista @ElTruecel @Aladin @theonewhocantascend thoughts on this gentlemen?
“She states that the alleged assaults took place while the plaintiff was ‘in childhood,’” McCallum wrote, before noting that the plaintiff’s year of birth indicates she would have been about 14 or 15 in the early 1980s.
A girl that age is “a sexually mature young woman, not a ‘child,’ as the term is conventionally understood,” McCallum wrote.
“As it is difficult to imagine a reasonable person concluding that the reference to ‘childhood’ … was an implicit reference to alleged pedophilia, we have difficulty accepting that this is what Mr. McCallum actually thought when he swore his affidavit,”
Mainstream media in Canada never reported on this. Redditors didn’t have anything nice to say other than name call and make insults.
This is from December 2023 to March 2024;
‘A sexually mature young woman’: Toronto lawyer disciplined for arguing 14-year-old girl is not a ‘child’
Lawyer Gary McCallum made the comments in a filing on behalf of an Ontario children's aid society, which was being sued over the alleged historical abuse of a teen girl
www.thestar.com
‘A sexually mature young woman’: Toronto lawyer faces discipline hearing over filing that 14-year-old girl is ‘not a child’
“I realized it could be read badly once everybody started reading it badly,” Toronto lawyer Gary McCallum said, reflecting Tuesday on the controversy over his comments, made on behalf of
www.thestar.com
@BigJimsWornOutTires @raleqtambrobret @Madridista @ElTruecel @Aladin @theonewhocantascend thoughts on this gentlemen?